Keywords: beef
Item 21448
Sanford Beef Company, Main Street, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 104014
Ralph Latham and Phil Cressey, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1925 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 37339
241-243 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Trustees of the Estate of Frank P. Cummings Use: Wholesale Grocer
Item 37335
228-232 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Estate of Sylvan Shurtleff Use: Storage - Meat
Exhibit
Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.
Exhibit
Cooks and Cookees: Lumber Camp Legends
Stories and tall tales abound concerning cooks and cookees -- important persons in any lumber camp, large or small.
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 2 of 3
"Beef processing costs 55 cents per pound dressed; federal beef processing costs 70 cents per pound dressed. They charge $50 to kill a cow either way."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm
"… beans, &c., also 1200 pounds pork and 500 pounds beef. The number of poor maintained at the farm the past year, was 13."
Story
Beef Cutlet always reminds me of home in Iran
by Parivash Rohani
Making beef cutlet in Maine connects me to my home in Iran and my Baha'i faith.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down